Tech giants should be compelled to share more data about the impact of their content with researchers and civil society so they can be properly scrutinised and no longer "hide in the shadows", campaigners have said. More than 40 charities, online safety campaigners and academics have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries , asking them to amend the Online Safety Bill to improve data sharing provisions. The campaigners argue that big technology firms "should not decide what evidence of the risks they are responsible for tackling gets made public" and say the Online Safety Bill, in its current form, will still leave companies in control of what data is available for independent scrutiny, and would still be able to "revoke access when they want". Among the more than 40 signatories of the letter are Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, academics from Oxford and Cambridge, and the chief executives of children's charities Barnardo's and the NSPCC , who say the Bill, which is set to introduce broad content rules to social media and other online platforms operating in the UK for the first time, should be bolstered further. Recommended Coleen Rooney to resume evidence… Read full this story
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